Improvement in kitchen-cabinets



UNITED STATES MATHEW B. SMITH, OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN KITCHEN-@ABINETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,186, dated September 10, 15,72.

SPECIFICATION.

I, MATHEW B. SMITH, of Waukegan, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Kitchen-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification The present invention relates to an improved cabinet which is designed to beused in kitchens to hold the articles used in cooking and its nature consists in combining in one article or casea flour-bin, meal-chest, table, drawercase, and molding-board, and also linen-closet, as the whole is hereinafter fully described and shown. I

In the drawing, Figure l is a perspective representation of my improved cabinet with the doors open and the molding-board in position for use Fig. 2, a transverse section thereof with the doors or lids shut.

A represents a suitable paneled box or case, which is made of wood or other suitable material, and its internal arrangement is as follows: A case of drawers, B B, are placed under a meal-chest, G, for stowin g away napkins, table-cloths, 860.; and a case of drawers, II I I I, is placed inside of the flour-bin S, for the purpose of holdin g spices and other small articles used in pastry and cooking. In order to secure the contents of the cabinet from dust and dirt, double doors, 0 M, are hung to its top,

and when they are open the door 0 serves as a table, it being supported on ordinary sliding brackets, (dotted lines N, Fig. 2.) hen open, as shown at Fig. 1, D represents a moldingboard, which, when in use, rests on the folding leaf or door 0, and when not required for use is placed in arecess formed between the partition L and front of the cabinet A, the said board being shown in the recess at Fig. 2. By this means the board has a firm support on the leaf 0 when in use, and a convenient place, free from dust and dirt, when not required for use.

The cabinet is very convenient, inasmuch Witnesses:

O. H. RICE, G. vL. CHAPIN. 

